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Protonmail on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10 server

#protonmail #debian #linux

Before you start

Currently protonmail bridge for linux is distributed as part of an open beta program, but soon it will be made public (https://protonmail.com/bridge/install).

Consider that the bridge linux client requires a paid protonmail account to work.

Get the protonmail bridge linux installer

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Background and goals:

• Privacy (main goal)
• Make it so censorship resistance is not precluded by our design
• Increase the cost for ISPs to identify (and maybe supress) Bitcoin P2P traffic
• Upgrade path that allows for authentication, PQC upgrades without needed a major overhaul

BIP324 history

• 2016:
  • BIP150: Authentication (currently stalled)
  • BIP151: Encryption

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# Remove previous installations
sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime vim-tiny vim-common

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev python-dev liblua5.3-dev lua5.3 python3-dev

# Fix liblua paths
# You have to compile luajit for yourself.
sudo ln -s /usr/include/lua5.3 /usr/include/lua
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.3.so /usr/local/lib/liblua.so

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Authenticated seeds

Objectives

This document proposes two paths to Bitcoin seed node authentication to facilitate conversation about the pros and cons of each.

Background and motivation

Reading:

• BIP324

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  BIP: 324
  Layer: Peer Services
  Title: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol
  Author&#58; Dhruv Mehta <dhruv@bip324.com>
          Tim Ruffing <crypto@timruffing.de>
          Jonas Schnelli <dev@jonasschnelli.ch>
          Pieter Wuille <bitcoin&#45;dev@wuille.net>
  Status&#58; Draft
  Type&#58; Standards Track

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Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

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Protonmail on CentOS server

#protonmail #centos #fedora #linux

Before you start

Currently protonmail bridge for linux is distributed as part of an open beta program, but soon it will be made public (https://protonmail.com/bridge/install).

Consider that the bridge linux client requires a paid protonmail account to work.

Get the protonmail bridge linux installer

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README

Create a template service file at /etc/systemd/system/secure-tunnel@.service. The template parameter will correspond to the name of target host:

[Unit]
Description=Setup a secure tunnel to %I
After=network.target

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